CES2010: Toktumi’s Line 2 poised to add dual mode Wi-Fi

I haven’t tried Toktumi’s Line2 app for the iPhone, which gives you a second iPhone line for $14.95 a month.

The program has more of a limited appeal for me with its price but the San Francisco company has some interesting plans to add a dual mode Wi-Fi component. The way it would work is that your second line could run on Wi-Fi so you could use that as a business or home phone and reduce your cellular minutes.

For instance, I could give out a second number to business clients and have them call me at that number. Or I could have a second number act as my quasi-home phone. When I’m at my home or office, I can receive and call from that number.

If I’m out of range, the number can still come in via cellular. But since Wi-Fi is available presumably in your home and other places you hang out, you could off load calls from your cellular plan while still using a phone number that’s important to you.

You can also transfer over calls from cellular to Wi-Fi manually though Toktumi is looking at making that seamless. And you can have access to your iPhone contacts for Wi-Fi calls.

The new update for Line2 is about to get submitted to Apple so we’ll have to wait and see. But there are other Wi-Fi calling apps available so hopefully it shouldn’t be a problem.

Speaking of those other apps, you could go with a Skype to make free calls over Wi-Fi but that’s only to other Skype users. To make calls to an actual number, you have to pay for that.